Mirror to nature : transformations in drama and aesthetics 1660-1732.

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Author(s): Rose A Zimbardo
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 257
Tags: History of Ideas; Philosophy; Aesthetics; Literature, European; XVIIth Century; XVIIIth Century;

Acknowledgments vn
1. The Four Stages of Dramatic Imitation, 1660-1732 15
2. Imitation of Nature as Idea 36
3. Imitation ofNature as "The City Between" 76
4. The Varieties of Dramatic Satire in the 1670s 105
5. Nature as the Experiential Actual, 1680-1700 128
6. Imitation of the Inner Arena:
Sentimental, Pornographic, or Novelistic? 164
7. Emulation: The Early Eighteenth Century 204
Notes 226
Index 243